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You won't have to worry about the health insurance soon!

To each his own. I prefer a NAS for redudancy, storage (5+TB) and ease of use (burning DVD is a time consuming process depending on the amount of dating you're dealing with.) It REALLY depends on how paranoid you are in regards to your data and how many backups you want. If a fire breaks out in your house, it doesn't matter what backups you have unless it's offsite. Heat alone will damage sensitive parts inside a fire safe. - Online backup. (I will never trust certain data to online data sites. There more data you have, the slower the process of backup and/or accessing will be. I've also seen some online data sites close down, bye bye data.) - DVD Backup. (I've seen discs deteriorate, scratch or error during the burning process, limited data space.) - Tape backup. (Tad on the slow side. I have little experience with this.) - Nas. (But there are many different types of NAS, drives can go bad, the odds of multiple drives at the same time are slimmer. But definetely not impossible.) - Raid card on pc. (Similiar to NAS.) - Data usage. (How often are you accessing and/or updating the data?) Pick and choose what suits your needs.

3.0.1 already out? Good to know, I don't currently need to update. The other solution to tethering would be Jail-Breaking.

I have a problem with it simply being the teacher. No different then a company deciding to keep the executives pay packages in play yet they're happy to lay off or paycut the rest. Does this surprise me? Nope. What happened this year that last year they were unable to pay the bills? 9.5%+ unemployment rate, less tax received? Someone somewhere should have seen this coming and planned ahead instead of waiting for the last minute. But nope, would it surprise me if they had hired more people, spent more? I don't disagree. Off topic, but in the past in the past year, it has led me to believe otherwise. It's easy to say pay more, spend more, bail out more. It is still a bandaid to the solution. What's going to happen next year when and IF more people lose their jobs? Less tax is received, therefore more tax will be imposed on people that can still pay taxes? For the post replies I've received, all I hear is "you don't care about education, so just shutup and pay the tax." Guilt trip works on the gullible and sensitive people. (FYI - I believe nurses work in the private and public sector, there's a shortage of nurses and some do get paid well.) - Isn't half our Texas budget in school and medical or wasn't it 2/3rds (Sorry I only so much time to take in so much information.)? Gee who's freeloading our government systems. - Isn't Cypress district getting less per students vs other districts. - Aren't some school buildings more extravagant than necessary? (I would rather money be spent paying teachers then optional tile/marble floors. That's another discussion.) I read a number of posts that points to a combination of problems to lead us to where we are. Some with valid solutions. I can accept a "temporary" tax hike, but stop turning a blind eye. One more thing, I hate the fact that if your budget has a surplus then you get a budget cut next year. There is no incentive for many goverment run institutions to spend wisely.

I would suggest a NAS set to Mirror or Raid 5 if there are more then 3 drives. One drive fails you get warned and replace with similiar size drive. Data will replicate over after the drive is replaced.

There are certain programs that can remove the secure encryption. The cheap way would be to print screen, paste into image, and convert to pdf. (I prefer the program method.)

There is already a method to enable tethering on AT&T without jail-breaking. Whether or not they can "catch" you and charge you for it is still up for discussion. So far though AT&T has yet to charge additional with those that are currently tethering on the their AT&T plan.

Common sense means I don't give away 1 dollar for every 1 dollar I earn. Because it's easier to just dump money to feel better about it "might" fix the problems. I don't recall saying that I didn't care about the quality of the schools. I'm more concerned of why the situation came to the point where a "bailout" was needed. But apparently that point was completely ignored. I'm not disagreeing with the you, except you left out other parts of my argument. Someone screwed up, and the tax payers are the one that has to bail them out. Where is the line drawn? It would be great to have 1:1 teacher student ratios, that isn't realistic. How many cents off the dollar do you want to invest in education for you child that will make you happy? That's right, I've seen government in action lately and I have not been impressed... so I'm the zealot for having people accountable for their actions yet it's okay when the anti-free-marketers and tax zealots don't complain unless it helps their cause... I would my like my right to choose either a public or private school to take my daughter to without having to be forced to spend money on public school and pay more for private school. But since that right is not there, I should be told to shut up and pay more taxes... Marmar I don't disagree with your points. However, I am more interested in determing where the problem lies and finding a solution vs just keep spending money to bandage the problem. I won't put any more effort to the discussion since it's apparent that some people can speak for other people's agenda and pretend they don't have their own.

I don't agree with the district going for teachers, they should be doing it across the board. Which is bad it what way? Who should dictate how much profit one should make if they are developing a system that can sustain itself based on consumer demands? I have seen a government entity blatantly profit themselves, the school districts cannot play innocent. Someone/somewhere mismanaged, overspent and/or just screwed up needs to have his head chopped off. Pointing the finger is the hard part. If I own my business, and have to lay people off to survive, it would be fair to fire myself... I should have to close business down so I can fairly fire everyone instead of trying to save some jobs... If I get taxed more, it wouldn't be fair to the person I have to lay off to cover the extra expense. Sorry, but life isn't fair and in some cases it's for the better. More teachers does not make kids smarter. Throwing X number of teachers at students does not translate to better education. More "qualified/skilled" teachers do. I would hope that those being layed off are the "least qualified" teachers, who may be better suited for different professions.

Beyond the bonds, beyond the pay raises, beyond the tax increases, beyond state funding, beyond the home owners exemption... (I understand this discussion goes in further then my simple question...) What make schools and teachers exempt from the economy?